OTOP: One Time, One Place. AKA: Ichi go, ichi e, or one life, one meeting. In any encounter there is only one chance. Now is
absolute, tomorrow is only a maybe. Your whole life is in this moment.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Things that are happening around here...

1) I am wearing skirts and shorts...because it's warm. Thank you GOD.2) Learning to accept stretch marks on my belly. They just SHOWED up two weeks ago. WHORES.3) Rubbing my belly feverishly with oils and creams. 4) Reorganizing, rearranging, reinventing spaces in our little home.5) Finding comfort in Apartment Therapy's small spaces features6) Anxiously awaiting my new washer and dryer...I've never been so excited to do laundry.7) Starting on "light duty" (no patient care) at work next week because my liver enzymes are slightly elevated...my OBGYN is watching me for preeclampsia and complications related to. 8) Seeing a perinatologist at a larger hospital on Monday. Scarey.9) Trying to be chill.10) Yoga11) Monthly prenatal massage. Holy Heaven on Earth.12) Picking colors for babys room.13) Shouting commands at my Mom, Jenn, and Husband as I am no longer allowed to lift heavy objects and run up and down flights of stairs.14) Stalking Ohdeedoh's nursery tours for ideas and inspiration.15) Pregnancy has me on high alert, emotionally. Very difficult for those around me. One minute I love you, the next minute I am throwing the directions to put our new cabinet together at my Mom and trying not to use physical violence.

Ahhhhh......12 more weeks of pregnanct. I can't believe how it's flown by. I am praying for each of these next weeks to come an go without event. Let's keep this baby cooking per the manufacturers directions....40 weeks. Send the internet Mojo.